Halliburton wins Iran gas contract despite sanctions

[Caldric]

Is there nothing this company cannot get away with? How do they do this so blatantly? Do they control some power in the White House? Sure looks like it. Seems Haliburton cares nothing about US interest and I suppose if you bought part of the White House you make your own rules up.

TEHRAN: Iran said Monday that U.S. oil giant Halliburton had won a major contract to drill for gas, despite U.S. sanctions against foreign investment in the country's energy industry. "Halliburton and Oriental Kish [an Iranian company] are the final winners of the tender for drilling South Pars phases 9 and 10," Pars Oil and Gas Company managing director Akbar Torkan said, according to state television. An unidentified Pars company board member said the deal for the gas fields in the Gulf off the south coast of Iran was worth about $310 million. He said Halliburton had not directly signed the contract but that it had offered its services via Oriental Kish. Under a law introduced in 1996, the United States threatens sanctions on both American and foreign companies investing more than $40 million in Iran's petroleum industry. Halliburton, once chaired by US Vice President Dick Cheney, has come under investigation in the United States for its dealings with Iran through a Cayman Islands subsidiary. The U.S. broke diplomatic ties with Tehran after Iranian university students stormed its mission in Tehran in 1980 and took diplomats hostage for 444 days. The United States also accuses Iran of covertly trying to develop nuclear weapons, a charge vehemently denied by Tehran.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article....ticle_id=11695

[scott.voigt]

Wow... talk about working both sides

[Bluehawk]

We ain't seen NUTHIN' yet!

China is agitatin' to purchase UNOCAL, one of the main contenders for pipelines across Afghanistan...

They, with India, are gonna make Halliburton seem like a baby goldfish in a pond of Pike.

So much for NAFTA and GATT.